1. Strategic & Creative Solutions
Miriam Bakkali
N0514961
An investigation into new forms of digital human interaction
Instant Messaging and its implication
2. Aim
- To investigate into Instant Messaging as a dramatic change in
communication
- To understand the key differences between Face to face communication and
Digitally mediated communication
- To investigate how these changes are affecting the world of fashion
marketing and branding
3. Research objectives & key areas
Instant Messaging &
Interpersonal
Communication
Instant Messaging
& Consumer
Behaviour
Instant Messaging
& Emotions
7. Interviews Experiment Focus Groups
Primary Research
Emilio Macchia
- CEO of the
Branding & Graphic
Agency EEE
Cristina Boydell
- Account Manager
for Skywire, luxury
fashion agency
Jeffrey Taraschi
- SVP of Interactive
Group ltd
Face-to-face VS
Digitally-mediated
communication
LinkedIn
Discussions
3
Gen Z
Gen Y
Gen X
3
• Marketing
Communication
• The Digital
marketing Group
• The Brand
Management
Group
4x2
8. Secondary Research
Limitation
• Time & resources available
• Limited number of participants
• Wide demographic and
nationality range
• English ability
12. FINDINGS
Experiment – FTF vs DMC
Gen Y Gen ZGen YGen X
Brief: create an origami in 10 mins
Before & After:
- Rate their emotional
response
- Rate their partner’s
emotional response
13. Experiment – FTF vs DMC
FINDINGS
4/4
Completed the
task FACE TO
FACE
2/4
Completed the
task on Instant
Messaging
Face to face interaction is
more productive and
effective
Lack of non verbal cues
may cause
misunderstandings
4/4
Empathy
FACE TO FACE
1/4
Empathy on
Instant
Messaging
14. Instant Messaging & Personalities
HEAVY USERS LIGHT USERS
7.5
7.1
8.8
7.6
5.9
8.6CURIOSITY
ASSERTIVENESS
OUTGOING
FINDINGS
(More than 5 hours) (Less than 1 hour)
Younger
HEAVY USERS
Over-relying on texting is
stopping them to express
themselves face to face.
Self-esteem
Self-confidence
15. Instant Messaging & Relationships
84%
FINDINGS
‘Instant Messaging is
strengthening my
social ties’
16. Instant Messaging & Relationships
84%
FINDINGS
‘Instant Messaging is strengthening
my social ties’
‘IM does not strengthen my family and friends ties,
as hand is making most of my connections quite
superficial’
‘Instant Messaging has not improved the quality
of my relations, maybe the quantity’.
‘when you are able to reach out someone via WhatsApp
as many times as you wish, then the content of the
communication itself risks to become superficial, trivial
and insignificant.’
(24-28, female, Italian)
17. Instant Messaging & Relationships
FINDINGS
‘organising’
Relationships are increasingly
similar to the management of
other resources
Light
conversation
+ 71% casual acquaintances
Texting over
talking
‘the removal of the
awkward moments’ that
occur in real time
conversations
Efficiency
Predictability
Calculability
Control
McDonaldizationofSociety
18. FINDINGS
Effective Instant Messaging :
:
‘It is hard to express myself by writing, sometimes I might come off
upset when I am not at all’. (24-28,Italian, Female)
‘It is hard to know how people are saying things when
online’.(18-23, American, Male);
How can Instant messaging be more effective?
23. WhatsApp Marketing
WHATSAPPMARKETING
“We’ve taken SMS technology for
consumers and improved it. Now, we
want to do the same with commercial
messaging.”
CEO WhatsApp
1 BILLION
• Learn consumer behaviour on
instant messaging
• Understand consumers’ difficulties
in expressing emotions through
texting
• Learn how to speak the new global
language
24. Emoji Marketing
EMOJIMARKETING
Why
• Mobile device are changing the style of
communication
• Universal language, understood by millions
• Culturally relevant
• Optimised for the smaller screen
25. How brands are reacting to these changes?
EMOJIMARKETING
26. How brands are reacting to these changes?
EMOJIMARKETING
27. How brands are reacting to these changes?
EMOJIMARKETING
28. How brands are reacting to these changes?
EMOJIMARKETING
29. How brands are reacting to these changes?
EMOJIMARKETING
30. What is next
EMOJIMARKETING
‘in an increasingly technology-
driven world, emotion is either
absent or
oversimplified.’(Affectiva,2015)
When we digitize emotion, it can
enrich our technology, for work,
play and life.
Understand how
consumer feel
Adapt a personalised
messages, in a highly
personal experience
32. So.. What we found?
Instant Messaging &
Interpersonal
Communication
Instant Messaging &
Consumer Behaviour
Instant Messaging
& Emotions
• People rather text than
talk, even if face-to-face
communication is more
effective
• Ubiquitous use of mobiles
• IM’s heavy users tend to
be more outgoing,
assertive and curious
• However, younger
generation are conscious
about self-esteem issues
caused by IM
• People have obstacles
interpreting emotions
online
• People enjoy using emoji
• People appreciate brands
using emoji, in the right
context
33. Recommendations
Interesting behaviour’s
patterns linked to IM
Research into consumer’s
behaviour on IM could
define a richer consumers’
profile and potential
unfilled consumers’ need
WhatsApp predominance
Considering Whatsapp as
a platform not just as a
tool. Researching into new
language patterns
Emotions
Invest into emotional
measurement technology
34. First step
• Underexplored desire for a
richer emotional
communication
• A need to understand to
integrate it without losing the
importance of FTF interactions.
To Conclude
how Instant messaging is affecting interpersonal communication and if IM could translate emotions as effectively as FTF communication. The aim of this research is to fill this gap, and thus to understand how this change in communication is affecting the world of fashion marketing and branding.
To successfully achieve the purpose of this research, it has been used a variety of tools to better understand the complex scenario of digitally-mediated communication. An extensive secondary research has been completed, with attention to use different resources as books, journals, newspapers and reports, to acquire the necessary knowledge to carry out thoughtful primary research. The primary investigation has been balanced to obtain quantitative and qualitative data, which were often interconnected.
DIGITAL REVOLUTION HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED HOW PEOPLE COMMUNICATE TODAY.
DIGITAL REVOLUTION HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED HOW PEOPLE COMMUNICATE TODAY.
If Facebook opens up WhatsApp to marketers, brands can ‘for the first time start to fully interact with consumers globally and seamlessly’ with nearly a billion of potential consumers
This hypothesis could be a potential solution to the lack of empathy and non-verbal cues on DMC and the starting point for further research.